Our purpose is to provide learning opportunities for people in Wellington and beyond to engage in critiquing and valuing developments in religion, spirituality, arts and sciences during changing economic and political times

"What a piece of work is man! ... The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!" This was Shakespeare's exhuberant, perhaps flamboyant discovery of what the human condition is like. Or can be like. Nietszche said, "Man is an unfinished animal". Yet there is the ever-questing power and activity of human thought which has grown immensely since the origin of our speicies and which asks such basic questions as "who am I?", "where have I come from?", "where am I going?", "what am I doing here?", "what, if anything makes life meaningful and worthwhile?" Lloyd Geering surveys current thinking about these questions and does some penetrative thinking of his own.

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